This is the website of Joel Adejola. I write about how we know: with machines, and on the football pitch. Most of what is here is on scouting and projection, artificial intelligence, attention, education and Nigeria, with poems and letters among them.
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How we know
Artificial intelligence
Football
Scouting
- What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?
- Why Focusing on Strengths Leads to Better Scouting Outcomes
- Reflection as a Scouting Optimizer
- Outlets: Football's Pressure Valves
- What Should We Expect from Head Coaches?
- What Can Scouts Learn from Crawling Plants?
- Avoiding the Description Trap when Scouting (or Analyzing)
- Non-Trivial Scouting Cues
- What Can we Learn From Synergies?
- Archiving as a Scouting Tool
- Beyond the Playbook: The Role of Anti-Strategy in Competition
- Reverse-Engineering: How Players and Teams Poke Football's Margins
- Player Development Curriculums Need Digital Sieves
Projections
Precision Play
Match analysis
- Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers
- 10 Reasons You Got McTominay so Wrong
- Liverpool, Goals from Opposition Corners, and Arne Slot
- A Case for Lisandro Martinez at Left-Back
- On Motivation, Arsenal's Arteta – not Arteta's Arsenal – and Throw-ins.
- The Tweaks Behind Manchester United's Resurgence
- On 2nd-Balls & United's Case for Casemiro
Attention
Education
Nigeria
Poems and letters
Personal
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